The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. health official urged people Sunday to get vaccinated against measles at a time with active outbreaks in several states and as the United States risks losing its measles elimination status.“Please get vaccinated,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers...

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal judges around the country are scrambling to address a deluge of lawsuits from immigrants locked up under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.Under past administrations, people with no criminal record could generally request a bond hearing before an imm...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s opposition leader charged with treason appeared in court for the first time in months on Monday, but the hearing was adjourned yet again after he opposed the prosecution’s plan to have secret witnesses appear in a special enclosed cell.Opposition leader Tundu...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu, two Olympic standouts who have faced their share of hate over the years, each weighed in Monday on Donald Trump’s bashing of their friend, American freeskier Hunter Hess, for having said he didn’t back the U.S. president’s heightened crackdown o...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsTuesday, February 10COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6:30 p.m.Ball State at Eastern Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports7 p.m.Miami (OH) at Western Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo SportsT...

TORONTO (AP) — Air Canada said Monday it is suspending service to Cuba because of a shortage of aviation fuel on the island.Canada’s largest airline said it took the decision after the Cuban government announced aviation fuel would not be available at Cuban airports as of Tuesday.Cuba has be...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsTuesday, February 10COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Fordham at Saint Joseph’s — ESPN app, ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports7:30 p.m.Marquette at Villanova — TNT, truTV, HBO Max, Sling TV, TNT WEB9 p.m.Duke at Pittsburgh — E...

You’d expect an animated basketball movie with four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry in the producer’s chair to be an easy lay-up. So why is “GOAT” such a brick?Despite a wondrously textured, kinetic world and some interesting oddball characters, the movie is undone by a predictable, sacchari...

MILAN (AP) — YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul showed up for speedskating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday, taking a second-row seat in the stands for the women’s 1,000 meters, in which his fiancée, Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands, was among the medal favorites.Wearing a scarf o...

MILAN (AP) — Handle with care. That’s the message from gold medalist Breezy Johnson at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after she and other athletes found their medals broke within hours.Olympic organizers are investigating with “maximum attention” after a spate of medals have fallen off th...

Some fans spent the second half of the Super Bowl focused on the Seattle Seahawks closing out a decisive victory over the New England Patriots. Others were concerned with another question: Did that couple who appeared in the wedding scene during Bad Bunny’s halftime show just get married for real?Yes, the couple did get married liv...

Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s prominent pro-democracy prisoner and media mogul, was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Beijing’s sweeping national security law on Monday in a high-profile case that has dragged on for five years.Lai, the founder ⁠of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, was first arrested in August 2020 and found gui...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to end a nearly monthlong strike over staffing levels, workplace safety, health insurance and other issues.The tentative agreement announced Monday by the union representing nurses involves the Montefi...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a confusing time for people with student loans. Collections restarted, then were put on hold. At the same time, borrowers had to stay on top of changes to key forgiveness plans. Last year, the long-contested SAVE plan introduced by the Biden administration ended wit...

MILAN (AP) — Ukraine’s sports minister decried actions by the International Olympic Committee that his government says indicate the body may soon ease restrictions against Russian athletes, allowing them to once again represent their country in future Olympic Games.At the Milan Cortina Olymp...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean Astin has taken on the presidency of the SAG-AFTRA at a particularly perilous time for the actors union, and for Hollywood. There’s the threat of human actors being replaced by artificial intelligence. The ongoing upheavals of streaming. Studio consolidation and reali...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s political parties were considering their options on Monday after the conservative Bhumjaithai Party’s decisive election victory showed that voters chose stability over change, analysts said. “This will be the first time in the 21st century that a conservative party...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon said Monday. The Pentagon’s statement on social media did not say whether the ship was connected to Venezuela, which faces U.S. sanctions on...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quotes from SAG-AFTRA president Sean Astin in an interview with The Associated Press. Astin, the new head of the actors’ union, will be part of forthcoming negotiations with studios and streamers — the first since the 2023 strike. The interview covered a range of topics —...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be self-incriminating.Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie returned to her Arizona neighborhood several times over the weekend, ahead of a Monday evening deadline set by her purported abductors who sent ransom notes demanding money for her return.The investigatio...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Rebels backed by the Islamic State group killed at least 20 people in an attack over the weekend on a village in eastern Congo, the military said Monday. The attack by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, took place early Saturday in the village of Mambimbi-Isigo in t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker on track to potentially win his first Oscar.The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, are one of the most...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities have denied attempting to expedite an end to asylum claims by the family of a 5-year-old boy who was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that has shaken the Minneapolis area. Images of Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a bunny hat and Spid...

Claude Code, an artificial intelligence tool that can generate computer code when people type a prompt, is having a viral moment.The tool, which the A.I. start-up Anthropic introduced in May, has shown record growth over the past two weeks, the company said, without sharing its data. People had time to experiment with Claude Code o...

ABOARD BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY (AP) — Aboard the Battleship New Jersey, surrounded by friends, family and the ship’s important legacy, John “Johnny Q” Quinesso Sr. marked a milestone: his 100th birthday.The World War II Navy veteran and longtime volunteer was honored last week with a special l...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health benefits, and more res...

Arica, Chile – On November 28, with just weeks remaining until the run-off in Chile's presidential election, far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast issued a warning."To the irregular immigrants in Chile," he said, "I tell you that 103 days remain for you to leave our country voluntarily."Kast ultimately won the election and is expec...

MILAN (AP) — Host nation Italy secured a place in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women’s hockey tournament for the first time by beating Japan 3-2 on Monday.Italy improved to 2-1, with one game left against Germany, and is guaranteed one of the three quarterfinal spots in Group B, where th...

Eight Muslim-majority countries have denounced Israel for trying to impose “unlawful Israeli sovereignty” in the occupied West Bank, after it approved controversial new measures expanding its control and making it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land.Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and the United...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s communications chief Tim Allan has stepped down as leader of the governing Labour Party faces fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.The move on Monday came a day after Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, also quit.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Epstein files set off Norwegi...

A Lebanese party with an armed wing has accused Israel of abducting one of its members during a cross-border raid in southern Lebanon.The al-Jamaa al-Islamiya accused Israel on Monday of seizing its official Atwi Atwi from his home in the Hasbaiyya district and taking him to an unknown location.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsli...

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

The rules will make it easier for Israeli settlers to buy land and give Israel more powers to enforce its laws.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — In any other Olympic sport, a tie game with the result hanging in the balance would create tension between teams. Not in curling. When U.S. mixed doubles curler Korey Dropkin accidentally kicked his stone off the center line Monday, in the middle of a decisive...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s president has warned that the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan has created conditions “similar to or worse than” those before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a sign of rising tensions with Kabul after last week’s mosque attack in Islamabad, which analysts said Mon...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Drought conditions have left over 2 million people facing hunger in parts of Kenya, with cattle-keeping communities in the northeast the hardest hit, according to the United Nations and others.In recent weeks, images of emaciated livestock in the arid area near the Som...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s leadership is on the rocks amid an expanding scandal over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the U.S. despite the veteran politician’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Some believe the recent release of the Epstein files, which sugg...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — New video footage from the day of the Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine others was released Monday, with city officials saying they had redacted the most graphic, violent images to avoid harming victims and “maintain the trust we have...

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Vice President JD Vance landed in Armenia on Monday — a country that no sitting U.S. vice president or president has visited before — as the Trump administration looks to advance a U.S.-brokered deal aimed at ending a decades-long conflict with Azerbaijan.The vice pre...

Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its chief executive officer on Monday, 11 months after the abrupt resignation of its previous CEO.Foran led Walmart’s U.S. division for six years before departing in 2019. While there, he introduced online ordering and pickup, and accelerat...

NEW YORK (AP) — The operator of roughly 180 Eddie Bauer stores across the U.S. and Canada has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Eddie Bauer LLC said Monday it had entered into a restructuring pact with its secured lenders as it made the filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Di...

Oxtail is one of my favorite meats, and I like it best when it has been slow-cooked for hours, so I recommend cooking it the day before and letting it sit overnight. What makes this dish from my cookbook “The Rise” so homey and delicious is the mix of the oxtail and the dumplings, which ever...

On February 12, Bangladesh will head to the polls to elect its next government, 18 months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted from office by a student-led movement.Hasina, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leader of the country’s independence movement, ruled Bangladesh between 1996 and 2001 and again from 2009 un...

Jeffrey Epstein pressured a media tycoon he did business with to quash coverage of allegations of his sexual abuse of girls, according to documents released by the United States Department of Justice.Epstein leveraged close personal and professional ties with the Canadian-American billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman to try to influence...

Palestine supporters have rallied across Australia to oppose a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who has been accused of inciting genocide against Palestinians.Police in Sydney on Monday used pepper spray and scuffled with protesters who marched against the Israeli president, who is in the country to commemorate victims of l...

At least four people, including a woman and her child, have been killed in Russian drone attacks on Ukraine, according to local officials.The Ukrainian air force said in a statement on Monday that Russian forces fired 11 ballistic missiles and 149 drones across Ukraine overnight.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond the car windows being smashed, people tackled on city streets — or even a little child with a floppy bunny ears snowcap detained — the images of masked federal officers has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.Not in re...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament. It also gives her the political power to make a strong rightward shift in Japan’s security, immigration and social policies. Here’s wha...

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Italian ski racer Giovanni Franzoni posted the fastest time in the downhill portion of the team combined Monday, an event that’s making its Olympic debut at the Milan Cortina Games.His teammate Alex Vinatzer will take the slalom course later in the day with a slim lead o...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Olympic fans came to Cortina with heavy winter coats and gloves. Those coats were unzipped Sunday and gloves pocketed as snow melted from rooftops — signs of a warming world. “I definitely thought we’d be wearing all the layers,” said Jay Tucker, who came from...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Prosecutors said on Monday there is “overwhelming evidence” that Kosovo’s former president and three other defendants are guilty of the murder and torture of people they considered traitors during the country’s war for independence.Hashim Thaci resigned from off...

MILAN (AP) — A record 13 backcountry skiers, climbers and hikers have died in the Italian mountains over the last week, rescuers said Monday, including 10 in avalanches triggered by an exceptionally unstable snowpack, as Winter Olympic competitions got underway.Fresh snowfall during recent s...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese police arrested 14 suspects in a criminal network allegedly run by a French citizen that sexually exploited children in the West African country. The suspected ringleader and French national, Pierre Robert, was arrested in France last April, police said in a...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed and an unspecified number of people injured in a road accident in northwest Nigeria, authorities said.The accident occurred Sunday in Kwanar Barde in the Gezawa area of Kano state and was caused by “reckless driving” by the driver of...

CAIRO (AP) — Two babies are among at least 53 people dead or missing after an inflatable migrant boat sank off Libya, the U.N. migration agency said on Monday, the latest tragedy on a dangerous route for those seeking a better life in Europe.The U.N.’s International Organization for Migratio...

BEIRUT (AP) — The number of people killed in a building collapse in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon has risen to 15, state media reported Monday.A further eight people were injured, the state-run National News Agency reported. Lebanon’s civil defense said at least one person suffered...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq announced on Monday that a high-level security officer during the rule of Saddam Hussein has been hanged for his involvement in the 1980 killing of a prominent Shiite cleric.The National Security Service said that Saadoun Sabri al-Qaisi, who held the rank of major general...

Milan, Italy – The world’s largest shipping line has been enabling the transport of goods to and from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, as the United States and Europe continue to promote trade despite clear responsibilities under international law, a joint investigation by Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Youth...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will head to the United States to meet Donald Trump as the US president confirmed plans to hold follow-on discussions with Iran after the weekend talks in Oman between the two foes, according to Netanyahu’s office.The talks will address the US’s ongoing negotiations with Iran, said the Isra...

A rubber boat ⁠carrying dozens of people has capsized off the coast of ‌Libya, leaving at least 53 people, including two babies, ⁠dead or missing.In a statement on Monday, the International Organization for ‌Migration (IOM) ‌said the vessel carrying 55 people had overturned north of the coastal city of Zuwara, in northwestern Libya...

Post-Grammy strategies are clicking into place, as winners and performers from the event unveil new material. That includes a remix of “Dracula” by Tame Impala (a winner for best dance/electronic recording) that features Jennie from the K-pop group Blackpink, a new single from the best new artist nominee Sombr and a solo breakout f...

MILAN (AP) — On the same day Amber Glenn won Olympic gold as part of the team event, and stepped away from social media due to backlash over her comments on politics and the LGBTQ+ community, the American figure skater ended up with another headache.Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produces...

HONG KONG (AP) — The sentencing on Monday of Hong Kong’s onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai raised concerns from foreign governments and rights groups, but Chinese and Hong Kong authorities defended it, saying it reflected the spirit of the rule of law. Lai, a 78-year-old prominent democracy ad...

MILAN (AP) — Denmark’s athletes walking into the opening ceremony at the Olympics led Eurosport broadcaster Davide Livermore to highlight an upcoming men’s hockey game.“The big crunch derby on Valentine’s Day in the ice hockey rink, given all that’s happening in Greenland at the moment, is t...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party’s lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just a year and a half in office.Starmer lost his chief of staff on Sunday and is rapidly shedding support from La...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian ambassador who was involved in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the 1990s and most recently served in Jordan has resigned as she faces scrutiny over her contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, the country’s Foreign Ministry said.The ministry announced Mona Juul’s r...

LONDON (AP) — Prince William and Princess Catherine expressed concern for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein in a statement released Monday, the latest move by the British monarchy to distance itself from revelations about the former Prince Andrew’s relationship with the convicted sex offender.B...